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US4472006A
US4472006A US06/498,772 US49877283A US4472006A US 4472006 A US4472006 A US 4472006A US 49877283 A US49877283 A US 49877283A US 4472006 A US4472006 A US 4472006A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C23/00—Bearings for exclusively rotary movement adjustable for aligning or positioning
    • F16C23/06—Ball or roller bearings
    • F16C23/08—Ball or roller bearings self-adjusting
    • F16C23/082—Ball or roller bearings self-adjusting by means of at least one substantially spherical surface
    • F16C23/086—Ball or roller bearings self-adjusting by means of at least one substantially spherical surface forming a track for rolling elements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/46—Cages for rollers or needles
    • F16C33/4617—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages
    • F16C33/4623—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock cages
    • F16C33/4635—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock cages made from plastic, e.g. injection moulded window cages
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/46—Cages for rollers or needles
    • F16C33/467—Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or roller retaining means
    • F16C33/4676—Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or roller retaining means of the stays separating adjacent cage pockets, e.g. guide means for the bearing-surface of the rollers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C2300/00—Application independent of particular apparatuses
    • F16C2300/02—General use or purpose, i.e. no use, purpose, special adaptation or modification indicated or a wide variety of uses mentioned

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  • the invention relates to a roller bearing of the kind defined in the introduction of the appended claim 1.
  • roller cages of pressed sheet metal with such roller guiding surfaces are known, e.g. by SE patent publication No. 349,110. Since the surfaces extend mainly parallel to the radii from the centre of the bearing through the middle of the cage pockets limited by the surfaces, they are not suitable for centering the cage by contacting the rollers. Therefore, the bars of the cage are provided with recesses and protrusions, respectively, on which cage centering surfaces are arranged, which surfaces contact the rollers radially outside and inside of the pitch circle of the rollers, respectively. Bars of this shape can easily be provided in a cage of pressed sheet metal. If the cage instead is cast in a plastics material, which in certain respects is advantageous, it is difficult or impossible to make recesses or protrusions in the bars. Earlier known plastics cages for bearings of the kind herein referred to have bars with a comparatively small radial extension and are therefore unsuitable for being centered by contacting the rollers.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to obtain a roller bearing of the kind referred to in the introduction with a cage which gives a good roller guidance without the necessity of outer or inner ring centering. This is achieved by incorporating in the bearing the characterizing features which are defined in the accompanying Claim 1.
  • a bearing according to the invention comprises a cage which is made of cast plastics, which gives a low production cost and allows the use of long rollers and many or wide rollers in a bearing with given outer dimensions, which gives an ability of taking up heavy loads.
  • the cage is designed so that it can be accurately centered by contacting the rollers.
  • FIG. 1 shows an axial section through a portion of a cage for a bearing according to one embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a section according to II--II in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 shows a view of a cage pocket.
  • FIGS. 1-3 show a portion of a cast plastics cage for a spherical roller bearing.
  • the cage comprises two coaxial rings, 1, 2 of different sizes and a number of bars 3 which extend axially between the rings and are evenly distributed around the circumference of the cage.
  • the rings and the bars are made in one piece and define a number of cage pockets in which the rollers are placed.
  • the position of one roller is hinted by the dashed line 4.
  • the rollers contact inner and outer raceways, which are omitted from the drawing and between which the rollers and the cage are situated, in the usual manner.
  • the radial extension of the cage bars 3 is great because the outer diameter of the small ring 2 is greater than the bore diameter of the large ring 1 and because the cage bars extend radially inside and outside of the rings 1 and 2, respectively, in the vicinity of the rings.
  • the rings have a limited radial extension.
  • the rollers describe an angle to the bearing axis, the rings are given a wedge-shaped cross section. Too thin ring parts are difficult to cast with methods suitable for mass production, and too thick parts impairs the possibility of using long rollers. Therefore it is suitable to limit the inward extension of the ring 1 and the outward extension of the ring 2 to the position of the thinnest ring section possible.
  • FIG. 2 shows the shape of the cage bars in a section through the middle portion of the bars.
  • the line 4 shows the outline of a roller arranged in a pocket between two cage bars 3.
  • Each bar has a portion 5 which extend radially inside of the pitch circle 6 of the rollers and has a surface 7 intended for contacting the adjacent roller for centering the cage.
  • the surface 7 is arranged so that a normal 8 through the contact of the roller with the surface forms an angle ⁇ with a line 9 from the bearing centre and through the axis of the roller, the angle being less than 60°.
  • the cage bar has a portion in connection to each end of the roller with a surface 10 (FIGS. 2 and 3) which the roller contacts when it is skewed to the maximum extent.
  • the surface is separated from the surface 7 and preferably so situated that a plane 11 through the contact of the roller surface with the surface and comprising the roller axis forms an angle ⁇ with the skewing plane 12 of the roller of less than 15°.
  • the best roller guidance is achieved if the angle is 0°, and such is the case if the surfaces 10 are parallel to the line 9.
  • the angle ⁇ should be as small as possible. If ⁇ is less than 15°, a good roller guidance is always obtained. If the surfaces 10 are parallel to the line 9, the angle ⁇ is 0°, as mentioned above, and in that case the further advantage is obtained that the cage may take an eccentric position in the bearing without the play between roller and cage bar being changed appreciably.
  • the cage bar is designed with the portion 5 it has a large surface 13 facing the bearing centre.
  • This surface acts as a storage for lubricant grease, so that a large lubricant reserve is obtained.
  • the width of the surface in the circumferential direction of the cage can be made greater than 0.2 times the roller diameter, and the length can be greater than 0.3 times the roller length without any special measures having to be taken.
  • each roller is provided with a protrusion 14 extending into the pocket.
  • the protrusion is situated on the opposite side of the pitch circle of the rollers in relation to the position of the centering surface 7 on the cage bar. Thereby the roller can be snapped into the cage pocket past the elastically flexible protrusion 14 during mounting.
  • the cage bars 3 may be provided with portions arranged radially outside the pitch circle 6 which portions have surfaces for cage centering as an alternative to the portions 5, whereby protrusions corresponding to the protrusions 14 are preferably arranged at the insides of the cage bars, so that the rollers can be mounted by being pressed outwardly into the cage.
  • the rollers 4 can have recesses in the end surfaces and the cage rings can have protrusions extending into said recesses in order to give a retaining effect.
  • the surfaces 10 and thereby the plane 11 which together with the plane 12 defines the angle ⁇ can be situated radially outside the plane 12.
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SE432977B (sv) 1984-04-30
SE8203576L (sv) 1983-12-10
GB8315845D0 (en) 1983-07-13
GB2129504A (en) 1984-05-16
JPS6347930B2 (de) 1988-09-27
IT1163489B (it) 1987-04-08
DE3320763C2 (de) 1984-10-25
FR2528509A1 (fr) 1983-12-16
FR2528509B1 (fr) 1987-03-20
JPS5913121A (ja) 1984-01-23

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